Athletic Involvement Study (of Students in a Northeastern University in the United States), 2006 (ICPSR 33661)

Alternate Title: AIS, 2006

Principal Investigator(s):
Miller, Kathleen, University of Buffalo

Summary:

The Athletic Involvement Study interviewed 795 students in a large public university in the Northeastern United States to explore how or if participation in sports affects people's health-risk behavior. About a quarter of the sample did not report any participation in a sport during high school or college and no primary sport designation. For those who did identify with a sport there were five predictor areas of interest: (1) scales measuring strength of jock identity; (2) strength of athlete identity; (3) goal orientation in sport; (4) primary sport ratings; and (5) conformity to masculine norms.

The Athletic Involvement Study interviewed 795 students in a large public university in the Northeastern United States to explore how or if participation in sports affects people's health-risk behavior. About a quarter of the sample did not report any participation in a sport during high school or college and no primary sport designation. For those who did identify with a sport there were five predictor areas of interest: (1) scales measuring strength of jock identity; (2) strength of athlete identity; (3) goal orientation in sport; (4) primary sport ratings; and (5) conformity to masculine norms.

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Study Description

Citation

Miller, Kathleen. Athletic Involvement Study (of Students in a Northeastern University in the United States), 2006. ICPSR33661-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33661.v1

Undergraduates enrolled in seven large-section, lower-level Sociology, Communications, and Economics courses at a large university in the northeastern United States were invited to complete a 45-minute anonymous questionnaire. Each participant received $10.00 compensation. In the case of the Communications students, the study also counted for research credit that could be applied toward fulfillment of a course requirement.

Two mechanisms were employed for distribution and collection of questionnaires. Approximately half were administered in a classroom setting, with enrolled students informed in advance that they had the option of skipping the class if they chose not to take part in the study. The remaining participants were recruited with brief in-class announcements inviting them to e-mail the research team to indicate their interest, whereupon they were sent a copy of the questionnaire form via e-mail. Participants then completed the questionnaire independently and returned it to the research team as directed.

Informed consent was secured from all participants and the study protocol was approved by the university's Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board.

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these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Created online analysis version with question text.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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